OSKAR RINK. Oskar Rink (* 1980 in Leipzig) lives and works in Leipzig.

Transcription

1 OSKAR RINK The artist works under the artist name Oskar Rink. Growing up in her father s studio, from early onwards she learnt the basic elements of painting. As a fashion designer and illustrator, the Leipzig based artist resigned from following in the footsteps of her father and mentor in order to develop her own language. Oskar Rink s completed Master Degree at the Sotheby s Institute of Art / Contemporary Art Department, contributed to the differentiation of her individual perception of art. In my work, I reproduce the convoluted process of thinking. Combining notions of confusion and clarity, my practice interrogates the logical incoherence of sense and sensitivity. Emerging from a vague vision, each artwork is constantly growing on multiple dimensions, time and space being of no measure. Part of my process is the imbrication of scattered thoughts as they convene in their cross-connectedness. First they seem randomly placed, but they are all concatenated, following a rhizome structure, where the answer is to be found in the structure itself. Inspired by Russian constructivism and contemporary architecture, my three-dimensional works are based on aspects of engineering and constructing. Preferably using simple material such as paper, cardboard and thin wooden sticks, I reconstruct manifested dream worlds. The process of building playfully and subversively contemplates the eternal search for a home, a sense of identity. By suggesting that aporia emboldens aspirations, my work reveals the dualism between confusion and clarity, connection and separation, image and self. In a permanent state of oscillation between self and circumstances, constant restlessness drives us to explore the limits of our own making of the world. My approach to new projects allows room for coincidence and intuition. Each creative process is an on-going development in response to the situation. While I use a variety of materials and processes for each project, my methodology remains consistent. Driven by the context of the efforts, endeavours, impulses, inclinations and undertakings of the ever striving, never resting human mind, my arrangements establish a dream-like surreal quality, inviting the viewer to move into the mellifluous, fragile spheres of inner vision of outer reality. My work is a reflection of everything I am searching for. The light, the sanity, the urge to dive into the complexity of my surroundings that I am trying to understand, trying to grasp, trying to visualise. My sculptures and paintings contemplate a world, in which I am trying to build a map and draw a path that I can follow; something that guides me, so I won t get lost. Oskar Rink (* 1980 in Leipzig) lives and works in Leipzig.

2 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2018 Den ganzen Tag am Strand, duo exhibition with Edgar Leciejewski, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig Nach dem Bild ist vor dem Bild, FAK, Zwickau Mashup V, Diezhold Raum, Leipzig Klasse Klein, Wiensowski&Harbor, Berlin 2014 Saxonia Paper II, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse, Leipzig 2017 Formation Sieben, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig Poppe & Rink, Venet Haus Galerie, Neu-Ulm Auftakt, Spinnerei Rundgang, Leipzig Wo de Nordseewellen trecken an de Strand, Circle Culture Gallery, Sylt 2013 POTSE 68., Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin Spinnerei Herbst-Rundgang, Leipzig Abstrakt Konkret Konstruktiv, Kunsthalle, Leipzig Illustrative Festival, Berlin Summer Group Show, Circle Culture Gallery, Hamburg Mashup IV, Barlachhalle, Hamburg Unbekannte Größe, Solo Show, Circle Culture Gallery at Rebelle Pop-Up Space, Hamburg 2016 DOKODEMODOOR, Werkschauhalle, Leipzig La Rosa Social Club, The Conversation, Berlin 2012 The Museum of Curiosity, Black Rat Projects, London GalleryOpening, Circle Culture Gallery, Hamburg Oskar Rink & Arno Rink, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin 2011 Skateboarts, Galerie Abtart, Stuttgart Skateboarts, Forum Kunst Rottweil Oskar Rink & Marie Carolin Knoth, Galerie Noah, Augsburg Deine blauen Augen sind mir scheißegal, Villa Bühlers, Fürth BRP Paper, Curatorial Project, Black Rat Projects, London Elephant Parade, Group Project, Milan Paperworks, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin ArtStars, Ralph Lauren Project, international 2015 AAF MILAN, New Contemporary - Gallery San Carlo, Milan Schichten, Solo Show, Circle Culture Gallery, Hamburg 2010 Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg Druck Berlin Festival, Berlin Le Salon du cercle de la culture a Berlin, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin Radiate, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin Werksschau Rundgang Mai, Spinnerei, Leipzig Christie's First Open Auction, London 2009 NeuBau Collective, Berlin Self-Portrait, Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin

3 SOURCE: Leipziger Volkszeitung, p. 9 DATE: June 12, 2018

4 OSKAR RINK: SCHICHTEN THE GRAPHIC DREAMS OF GERMAN ARTIST OSKAR RINK ARE EXHIBITED IN HAMBURG UNTIL APRIL 25TH AT THE CIRCLE CULTURE GALLERY Oskar is always giving a peaceful feeling to the visitor either when looking at her sculptural white collages in large-scale format, a dress made with paper or a painting with 'just' straight lines. On the occasion of this exhibition called Schichten five glass cases are providing the center. They seem to defy the laws of statics and gravity with a feeling of lightweight. Indeed, the main material used by the artist is white paper, for instance one of the work, the fragile, detail-rich sculpture dress in her photo-series EGLANTINE I & II (2014) is made out of paper. She turns the paper into a second skin by sewing a dress out of it, only to let it dissolve in water later on. Rink has acquired the specific technique of transferring two-dimensional objects into a three-dimensional volume in her studies of Pattern and Design. Still developing them further, she consequently accesses more and more dimensions of representations. Although working on sculptures, Rink is also showing drawings and paintings acquiring geometric forms. Made especially for the exhibition, these paintings are a special combination of drawings and a wiping technique in oil to conceive the work layer by layer. The artist makes sure to display the process that is the traces of the manual labour within the work. At first sight, her paper works recall immaculate Japanese folding techniques; yet, these traces induce an unexpected roughness. SOURCE: DATE: February, 2015

5 OSKAR RINK AT CIRCLE CULTURE GALLERY IN HAMBURG After hosting The Stendhal Syndrome, an exhibition of paintings by Katrin Fridriks, Circle Culture Gallery announced the opening of a show dedicated to German female artist going by the name of Oskar Rink. This versatile creative mind will present her mixed media installations through schichten (layers), offering a deeper understanding of fragility and the abstract. The Schichten of Oskar Rink The works of Oskar Rink embody different kind of materials paper, glass, wood, nails, cardboard, wire, on which she applies different mediums oil, pencil, gouache, spray paint, among others. Her large-scale, yet lightweight installations either stand tall in space of hang from walls. These gentle constructions sometimes interact with each other as well, bonded only by delicate bracings. Fascinated with paper, Rink uses it almost as the basis of her pieces, while other raw materials revolve around it, completing its purpose. Making the most out of paper s chemical characteristics, such as its ability to dissolve in water, Rink creates small performances to accompany her art. The papers sometimes contain drawings, adding a value to an already established context, or simply offering an alternative aesthetic and symbolic meaning to it. A recurring element in the art of Oskar Rink is the frame. Using its borders to comprehend a content in space, she turns it into a threedimensional piece and gives it multiple points of view. Perspective is an important factor in her body of work, contributing to the intention to create a new image over and over. Rink draws inspiration from Suprematism and El Lissitzky, to whom she dedicated her 2013 mixed media work EL. In it, she plays with uniform colors and geometric figures, putting it together with abstract motifs, depth and perspective, derailing from her trademark white paper 3D installation sculptures, so fragile yet so powerful and brilliantly executed. Two of the works created especially for this exhibition, titled DER GEDANKE (COLOR) and ROT (ODER WENN POETEN VERSUCHEN DAS WETTER VORHERZUSAGEN), inspired the title of the show, as they contain multiple layers, each elaborated separately. Rink applied a special combination of drawing and a wiping technique in oil, highlighting the process of its conception. Oskar Rink at Circle Culture Growing up in her father Arno s studio (with whom she had an exhibition in 2012), Oskar Rink learned the basics of the art of painting under his mentorship. She completed Masters Degree at the Sotheby s Institute of Art / Contemporary Art Department, which helped develop her own artistic style and language eventually. Since 2009, Oskar Rink has had numerous group and solo exhibitions, mainly in Germany. Her works represent entire worlds of materials and concepts, whether they re illustrated surfaces or delicate spacial objects. Oskar Rink Schichten will be on view at Circle Culture Gallery in Hamburg, Germany, from February 21st until April 25th, The opening reception is on February 20th. SOURCE: DATE: February, 2015

6 Galerien / Kunst: Aktuelle Ausstellungen SOURCE: Tip, 2/13, p. 65 DATE: November 2013

7

8 !"#$%!&$'#&(#)!*#+,-&%&!!"#$%&'()*+,-.*+(/0+1* &'(/89(:;<(:=;:

9 !"#$%&'(%"$(%'))")*+,* IBJ&'(K4G(>?L(<=><

10 !"#"$%&'()*+,#(-%.(,#%)(#$%+!"#$%&'()*+,-.*+(/0+1* &'(/89(:;<(:=>: